Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
In 1991, Pioneer announced a new format they had invented called âDigital Versatile Discâ or DVD as it became known. The little shiny disc would do to VHS what CDâs did to vinyl and cassette tapes before it. In 1997, the first DVD player (the Thompson DTH1000U) hit the high street and VHSâs fate was set. By the end of the 90â²s smaller video shops had started to close, leaving the bigger chains like Blockbuster to mop up the rest.